Pipeline Playwrights

Pipeline Playwrights is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Northern Virginia. The idea for Pipeline Playwrights took root in the fall of 2016 when four Northern Virginia playwrights decided they wanted to get their work in front of a wider audience. Pipeline Playwrights launched formally in February 2017, under the auspices of Thelma Theatre, and incorporated as its own non-profit in November 2019. As a producing and writing collective, we work together to support, present, and promote the work of women playwrights. We believe theater should reflect the reality of daily life while exploring the infinite variety of our collective experiences as women. Our goal is to write and produce plays that communicate truths that bind us all together in community. In addition to three of the original co-founders, Ann Timmons, Jean Koppen, and Patricia Connelly, Pipeline Playwrights now includes Nicole Burton and Crystal Adaway. Today we are more spread out geographically, we continue to meet together to nurture each other’s creative work, and together we produce readings of not only our new works, but works by other women playwrights.